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CVE-2009-2288 in the critical feed json

statuswml.cgi in Nagios before 3.1.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the (1) ping or (2)…

published 2009-07-01 17 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2009-2284

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
83.5%
EPSS 83.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.6%
public exploits
4
Metasploit, Exploit-DB

Summary

statuswml.cgi in Nagios before 3.1.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the (1) ping or (2) Traceroute parameters.

Patch / fix

  • nagios hpc solution 1.0 2.12-3.el5

red hat advisories RHSA-2009:1141

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2009-2288 updated cvss 6.5

nagios: remote code execution via statuswml.cgi CGI script

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-33051)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

83.45% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.6% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • Metasploit exploit/unix/webapp/nagios3_statuswml_ping Nagios3 statuswml.cgi Ping Command Execution metasploit exploit, excellent rank, 2009-06-22
  • EDB-33051 Nagios 3.0.6 - 'statuswml.cgi' Arbitrary Shell Command Injection remote, 2009-05-22
  • EDB-16908 Nagios3 - 'statuswml.cgi' 'Ping' Command Execution (Metasploit) webapps, 2010-07-14
  • EDB-9861 Nagios3 - 'statuswml.cgi' Command Injection (Metasploit) webapps, 2009-10-30
  • tracker.nagios.org http://tracker.nagios.org/view.php?id=15 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command

References

Sources

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